This Pardew quote at least shows he knows what's required

AFKABartram

'I think the message I gave them today was that it's not going to be about being nice and pretty and looking for that aesthetic win, it's going to be about fighting, digging in, and winning games.'

You've got your work cut out with that lot Al, Best of British mate....

StanmoreAddick

Hopefully that's the polite version for the Camera and the real motivational words were a tad more aggresively put on the training ground.

Maybe- just maybe, "that lot" might be capable of it- surely on paper anyway, there are at least three teams who are worse than us.

Salad

In fairness to his predecessors, we (the fans) were fed up of boring Curbs' football and wanted aesthetic football and this was clearly a part of their brief. Obviously it is no longer is relevant at the moment!

ThreadKiller

think pardew said we need to win every other game in order to stay up.well wtf was reed's brief then?